The British Need a Sixth Amendment, Badly
December 12, 2025
Arrogance run amok. It is the most apt comment to characterise Britain’s justice minister David Lammy’s new understanding of what constitutes justice in England. His
Politics
Keir Starmer: Dead Man Walking
December 8, 2025
Going Nowhere As the season of goodwill approaches, it’s traditional to take pity on those less fortunate than ourselves. And there are few sights more
The New Conservative Alternative Budget
December 3, 2025
With the recent Budget going down about as well as Keir Starmer at an orgy for those who can actually see, it looks set to
The Chancellor’s New Clothes
December 2, 2025
There is a pleasing synchronicity that Oxford announced its word of the year is “rage-bait”. After a weekend of splenetic fury over the Chancellor’s statements
Sir Keir Can’t Afford Peace in Ukraine
November 17, 2025
The Guardian reported last week that the British military is preparing for operations in Ukraine. While this was easy to treat as mere sabre-rattling, Keir
Public Service
November 5, 2025
For something which knows so much about me, Facebook seems to know very little about me. It knows where I went to university, but deluges
Mandelson: More Wizard of Oz Than Prince of Darkness
September 15, 2025
I try to keep out of the “who’s your favourite cannibal?” debate because it always gets too political. If you say Anthony Hopkins then some
Emily Thornberry Is the New Mrs Dutt-Pauker
September 11, 2025
For many years the late Michael Wharton wrote a column for The Daily Telegraph using the pseudonym Peter Simple. He created therein a Swiftian world
The Lunatics Really Are Running the Asylum Now
September 10, 2025
I was only half listening to the news at the end of the week, and over the weekend, preoccupied as I was with a five-hour